10 years of Apordoc
The state of Portuguese documentariesApordoc was officially founded
as an association on the 15th of July 1998 with the goal of contributing
to the development of a culture of documental cinema. To commemorate
the association’s 10th anniversary, and as a conclusion
to this edition of doclisboa, the festival will present several
events on the state of Portuguese documentaries.
By tracing a review of its activity, it is first necessary to
question the state of health of Portuguese documentary. What
has changed in ten years? What were the founder’s dreams
and those who supported it? What is today’s reality?

28 OCT. 18.00,
Londres (room 1)
Documentaries subsidized by the Portuguese Institute for Cinema and Audiovisuals
in the last 10 years

28 OCT. 19.00,
Londres (room 1)The
Architect and the Old City
(O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha)
Catarina Alves Costa
60’ PortugalThe architect Álvaro Siza and his team are called
to coordinate the Cidade Velha rehabilitation project in the island of Santiago,
Cape Verde. The aim is to make the city’s application to the UNESCO World
Heritage Site. The Cidade Velha is a historic place: formerly called Ribeira
Grande, it was the first city founded by the Portuguese in Cape Verde (1462).
The process creates a great deal of expectations amongst the local population,
who envisage it as a way of improving their life quality. This film tells the
story of two worlds meeting each other - the architect and the population,
while following some of the stories that happened in those three years…

28 OCT. 21.30,
Londres (room 1)
New documental series of RTP (Portuguese Radio and Television)

28 OCT. 22.30,
Londres (room 1)The
Cathedral (A Catedral)
Graça Castanheira
50’ PortugalThe quotation mens sana in corpore
sano dates twenty centuries
back. In a time when there’s twice the number of health clubs in Lisbon
than those that exist in public health centres, six characters, from 24 to
70 years old, explain to us their reasons for visiting a popular “health
club” in the Portuguese capital on a regular basis. The body as the ultimate
idea of cult.